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Revenge tragedy student, University of Windsor, Winter 2001. Ms. Abboud completed her MA in English at Wayne State University in 2003 and her PhD at Wayne State University in 2010. She is now an instructor in the arts and education department of Grande Prairie Regional College, Alberta.

Research assistant, 2010–11. Neil Adams completed a BA (first class honours) in history at the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) in 2008 and an MA in history at the University of Victoria in 2010. His MA paper analyzed the historiography of Canadian conscripts during the Second World War. A keen historian of early modern London, he is responsible for redrawing the ward boundaries.

Dr. Natalie Aldred is an independent scholar. She specializes in the editing and bibliographical studies of early modern English vernacular texts, as well as book history, early book advertisements, sixteenth-century theatre history, digital humanities, and professional playwrights, notably William Haughton. Her articles, notes, and conference papers explore bibliography, editing, genre, biography, and printers. She is currently editing Haughton’s Englishmen for my Money (for Digital Renaissance Editions), and co-producing, with Joshua McEvilla, an online catalogue of pre-1668 book advertisements in English periodicals (for The Bibliographical Society). She is assistant editor of The Literary Encyclopedia and contributes to the Lost Plays Database.

Dr. Ronda Arab (PhD Columbia) is an assistant professor of English at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include intersections of class, gender, and work on the early modern English stage; non-elite culture and its challenges to patriarchy; the role of literature and theatre in the construction of cultural discourse and social practice; and the city of London. She is the author of Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage (Susquehanna UP, 2011), an examination of working men in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and has a recent article in Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama (Ashgate, 2011). She has also published in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Renaissance Quarterly.

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre who maintained the Map of London project between 2006 and 2011. Stewart was a co-applicant on the SSHRC Insight Grant for 2012–16.

Contract programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre, who created the first version of the multi-layered map (the "experimental map"), based on his image markup and presentation application in 2006.

English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA honours student, English language and literature, University of Windsor.

Benjamin Barber is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa. His recently completed MA research at the University of Victoria analyzed the role of mimetic desire, honour, and violence in Heywood’s Edward IV Parts 1 and 2 and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. His current research explores the influence of Shakespearian protagonists on Lord Byron’s characterization of Childe Harold and Don Juan. He has articles forthcoming in Literature and Theology (Oxford UP) and Contagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture (Michigan State UP). He has also contributed an article to Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology (UCLA).

Shakespeare student, University of Windsor, Winter 2002.

Dr. Michael Best is professor emeritus, University of Victoria, and coordinating editor of Internet Shakespeare Editions.

Dr. Laurel Bowman’s area of interest lies specifically in Greek tragedy, a genre she says has inspired countless other works of literature, right up to modern day film and television.

Dr. Bowman persistently highlights the roles of women in these texts, or lack thereof, the construction of gender, and the significance of that construction in any text she looks at.

Some of her research focuses on a recent translation of Homer’s The Iliad by poet Alice Oswald. The poem concentrates only on the death scenes and the similes. Dr. Bowman argues that the translation highlights the depths of human sacrifice, torment, and loss suffered by the foot soldiers, their families, and their communities as a result of the Trojan War.

Another research project focuses on the myth of the sacrificial virgin and its presence in pop culture, specifically the works of writer/director Joss Whedon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame.

She brings her research on Antigone or Electra into the classroom, where her enthusiasm for the subject matter is palpable.

Shakespeare student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000.

MA 2001, Windsor; 2000. Funded by the Work Study program.

Pageantry student and MA candidate, University of Windsor, Winter 2000.

Encoder, research assistant, and copy editor, 2012–13. Cameron completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2013. He minored in French and has a keen interest in Shakespeare, film, media studies, popular culture, and the geohumanities.

English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; research assistant, 2002–03; BA honours student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor.

Hypertext Student, University of Windsor, Fall 1999; Shakespeare student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000. Dominic was one of the three students who created the first version of MoEML in 1999.

Research assistant, 2004–08; BA honours, 2006; MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Ms. Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.

Dr. Glenn Clark (PhD Chicago) is an associate professor in the department of English, film, and theatre at the University of Manitoba. His research interests currently include the relationship between English drama and the post-Reformation pastoral ministry, and the significance of commercialized hospitality in Tudor–Stuart culture. He is the author of articles on Shakespeare and other aspects of early-modern English drama in journals and book collections including English Literary Renaissance, Renaissance and Reformation, Religion and Literature, Shakespeare and Religious Change (Palgrave, 2009), and Playing The Globe: Genre and Geography in English Renaissance Drama (Fairleigh Dickinson/Associated UP, 1998). He is co-editor of the volume City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City (McGill–Queen’s, 2010).

Dr. Robert Clark, MoEML consultant, is reader in English literature at the University of East Anglia. He devised and developed ABES for Routledge (1996–2003) and is the founding editor and software designer of The Literary Encyclopedia , which has been published since 2000 and now comprises over 12 million words in a data structure of over 40 thousand records. He has also recently developed a test-bed site for cultural topography at mappingwriting.com, which is exploring the use of Google Maps for the representation of space in literary texts. His writings in literary history include History, Ideology and Myth in American Fiction; editions of novels by Defoe, Austen, and Fenimore Cooper; and essays on Dickens, Angela Carter, Michael Ondaatje, Henry Fielding, and The Spectator. He also edited The Arnold Anthology of British and Irish Literature in English. His major rereading of Jane Austen in relationship to the rise of the free-market, Jane Austen: Transformations of Capital, will be published by Routledge in 2013.

Undergraduate research assistant and encoder, 2013. Patrick is a fourth-year honours English student at the University of Victoria. His research interests include media archaeology, culture studies, and humanities (physical) computing. He is the current editor-in-chief of The Warren Undergraduate Review.

MA student, Victoria, 2004. Funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant.

English 520, Representations of London, University of Victoria, Summer 2008.

MA candidate, University of Windsor, Fall 2000. Mr. Davis went on to complete an MA in library and information science at the University of Western Ontario.

ENGL 520, Representations of London, Summer 2008; MA Candidate, English, University of Victoria. Formerly an instructor of literature at Aurora College in Fort Smith, NT, she is now the manager of adult and post-secondary education with the Government of the Northwest Territories. She resides in Yellowknife, NT.

Hypertext and Shakespeare student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000; research assistant 2000–2002. Ms. Drouillard received her MA in English from Queen’s University in 2003 and now works in information technology.

Telka is an MA student at the University of Victoria. Since 2010, she has been a research assistant for the Internet Shakespeare Editions.

Mike is a graduate of the University of Victoria in anthropology and computer science. During his contract with the Humanities Computing and Media Centre in the mid-2000s, he co-developed the TEI encoding guidelines for The Map of Early Modern London with Eric Haswell, redesigned the look of the site, and created the application framework and the database interface using PHP, interfaced with an early version of the eXist XML database. Since working on MoEML, he has contributed to various encoding projects for the Humanities Computing and Media Centre as well as for the electronic textual cultures lab at the University of Victoria. He has continued his career in information technology and is currently the technology administrator for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Undergraduate research scholar (URS) 2010–2011, department of English, University of Victoria. Natalia completed her BA honours in English with a major in French in 2011. She began an M.Sc. in literature and modernity at the University of Edinburgh in September 2011.

After contributing to MoEML in English 328, Drama of the English Renaissance, in 2003, Laura went on to earn her MA in English from the University of Toronto and her PhD in English literature and culture before 1700 from Wayne State University, Detroit. Her dissertation was entitled The Circulation and Recontextualization of Dramatic Excerpts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts. In 2010, she was appointed visiting assistant professor of English at the Université de Moncton, Campus Edmundston. She is currently the Banting postdoctoral fellow at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) at the University of Victoria. Laura has two articles forthcoming in 2011: "Richard II and the book of life," will appear in Studies in English Literature, and the second, Proverbial Shakespeare: The Print and Manuscript Circulation of Extracts from Love’s Labour’s Lost, will appear in the journal Shakespeare. Laura’s book chapter, Shakespearean Texts in Manuscript, co-written with Arthur F. Marotti, will be published in The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare, edited by Arthur F. Kinney, also in 2011. Laura has presented at many national and international conferences, including the Modern Language Association, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Laura’s research has been funded in part by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship and a Renaissance Society of America research grant.

Hypertext student, University of Windsor, Fall 1999. Jeremy was one of the three students who created the first version of MoEML in 1999.

Shakespeare student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000.

Dr. Ian Gregory is senior lecturer in digital humanities, department of history, Lancaster University.

English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English and cultural, social, and political thought, University of Victoria.

English 520, Representations of London in Early Modern Literature and Culture, Summer 2008; BA University of Victoria; currently an MA student, University of Victoria.

Eric collaborated with Mike Elkink on the creation of the initial schema and encoding guidelines for The Map of Early Modern London.

Dr. Tracey Hill is head of the department of English and cultural studies at Bath Spa University. Her specialism is in the literature and history of early modern London. She is the author of two books: Anthony Munday and Civic Culture (Manchester UP, 2004), and Pageantry and Power: A Cultural History of the Early Modern Lord Mayor’s Shows, 1585–1639 (Manchester UP, 2010). She has also published a number of articles on Munday’s prose works, on The Booke of Sir Thomas More, and on late Elizabethan history plays.

Dr. Brett D. Hirsch is university postdoctoral research fellow in medieval and early modern studies at the University of Western Australia. He is coordinating editor of Digital Renaissance Editions, co-editor of the Routledge journal Shakespeare, and vice president of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA). His research interests include early modern English drama, literary and cultural history, digital humanities, and critical editing, and he has published articles in these areas in The Ben Jonson Journal, Early Modern Literary Studies, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, and Parergon. He is currently working on an electronic critical edition of Fair Em and a monograph study of animal narratives in Shakespeare’s England.

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre who worked on porting the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Co-applicant on the SSHRC Insight Grant for 2012–16.

English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA honours student, English language and literature, University of Windsor.

Research assistant, 2002–03; BA Honours Student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor. Ms. Hutz received a Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to pursue her MA.

Janelle Jenstad, associate professor in the department of English at the University of Victoria, is the general editor and coordinator of The Map of Early Modern London. She is also the assistant coordinating editor of Internet Shakespeare Editions. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), and Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, forthcoming). She is currently working on an edition of The Merchant of Venice for ISE and Broadview P. She lectures regularly on London studies, digital humanities, and on Shakespeare in performance.

English 520, Representations of London in Early Modern Literature and Culture, Summer 2008; BA honours, English, University of Victoria; MA candidate, English, University of Victoria; teaching assistant, 2005–07. Dalyce’s research interests include representations of identity, place, and diaspora in Canadian literature. Now that she has completed her MA, Dalyce spends much of her time at the Camosun College library reference desk helping students with their research needs.

Research assistant, 2012. Noam Kaufman completed his Honours BA in English literature at York University’s bilingual Glendon campus, graduating with first class standing in the spring of 2012. An incoming MA student specializing in Renaissance drama, he is currently researching early modern London’s historic cast of characters and neighbourhoods, both real and fictional.

English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English, University of Victoria.

English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English, University of Victoria.

English 520, Representations of London, Fall 2005; MA student, English, University of Victoria. Alison received her MA in 2006 and is now completing her doctoral studies at Cambridge University.

English 364, English Renaissance Drama, Spring 2006; BA honours student in English, University of Victoria.

Revenge tragedy student, University of Windsor, Winter 2001.

English 412, Representations of London; BA honours student, English language and literature, University of Windsor, Fall 2002.

English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English, University of Victoria.

Encoder and research assistant, 2013 to present. Tye Landels is a BA Honours candidate within the Department of English at the University of Victoria. He has a passionate interest in geohumanities, urban theory, and early modern literature.

Having finished her bachelor’s degree at the University of Victoria, Jennifer went on to take a postgraduate degree at King’s College London. She completed her master’s in 2010 and is currently working on a PhD at King’s. Her doctoral project involves early modern non-literary documents and organizational theory.

Dr. Mary Ann Lund is lecturer in Renaissance literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy of Melancholy (Cambridge UP, 2010), and several articles on seventeenth-century prose writing and religious literature. She is currently editing volume 12 of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne; her volume is of Donne’s sermons preached at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1626. She also has a research interest in the history of medicine and early modern literature. She teaches a special subject at Leicester on early modern London.

Undergraduate research assistant and encoder, 2013. Quinn is a fourth-year honours English student at the University of Victoria. Her areas of interest include postcolonial theory and texts, urban agriculture, journalism that isn’t lazy, fine writing, and roller derby. She is the director of community relations for The Warren Undergraduate Review and senior editor of Concrete Garden magazine.

BA Honours 2003, Windsor; 2002

Dr. Sally-Beth MacLean is professor of English, University of Toronto.

Hypertext student, University of Windsor, Fall 1999; Shakespeare student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000. Matt MacTavish was one of the three students who created the first version of MoEML in 1999.

English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2008. Paisley Mann completed her MA at the University of Victoria and went on to doctoral work at the University of British Columbia. Her work on Thomas Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody began with a term paper on the play’s portrayal of illicit French sexuality, a topic she has also researched for the website Representing France and the French in Early Modern English Drama . This topic interests her, although she specializes in Victorian literature, because she frequently works on how Victorian literature portrays France and French culture. She is also a contributor for Routledge’s online databaseAnnotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Dr. James Mardock teaches Renaissance literature at the University of Nevada. He has published articles on John Taylor, the water-poet, on Ben Jonson’s use of transvestism, and on Shakespeare and Dickens. His recent book, Our Scene is London (Routledge 2008), examines Jonson’s representation of urban space as an element in his strategy of self-definition. His chapter in Representing the Plague in Early Modern England (ed. Totaro and Gilman, Routledge 2010) explores King James’s accession and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure as parallel cultural performances shaped by London’s 1603 plague. Mardock is at work on an edition of quarto and folio Henry V for Internet Shakespeare Editions, for which he serves as assistant general editor, and a study of Calvinism and metatheatre in early-modern drama. He has also served as the dramaturge for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.

English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA combined honours student, English language and literature and German, University of Windsor. Lacey went on to study speech-language pathology at Dalhousie University.

English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA combined honours student, English language and literature and history, University of Windsor. Ms. Martin defended her MA in history at the University of Guelph in October 2004, began doctoral studies at the University of Warwick, and is now completing her PhD at the University of Western Ontario.

Research fellow Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at Oxford University, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, a new freely available open-source digital finding aid and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Prior to that, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a PhD at Oxford University on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources which will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.

BA English, University of Alberta; MA library and information science, University of Alberta; MA, English, University of Victoria; English 521, Representations of London, Summer 2008. Mead-Willis won the Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal (top master’s other than thesis, all faculties). After her graduation in 2009, she returned to the University of Alberta as a rare book cataloguer.

Graduate research assistant, 2012. Sarah Milligan is an MA student at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on deviance in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. She also works with Dr. Alison Chapman on the Victorian Poetry Network , compiling an index of Victorian periodical poetry.

Programmer at the University of Humanities Computing and Media Centre who worked on graphics and layout for the site in the fall of 2011.

BA English (U of Victoria). Beth was a student in English 364 (English Renaissance Drama) in Spring 2006.

Helen Ostovich is professor of English at McMaster University and editor of the journal Early Theatre. Her published work, aside from articles on Jonson and Shakespeare, includes editions of Jonson and Shakespeare, most recently Jonson’s The Magnetic Lady (Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson) and All’s Well that Ends Well (Internet Shakespeare Editions) with Karen Bamford and Andrew Griffin. She is also editing Richard Brome and Thomas Heywood’s The Late Lancashire Witches (Richard Brome Electronic Edition). She is a general editor for The Revels Plays (Manchester UP) and for The Plays of the Queen’s Men (Internet Shakespeare Editions). She collaborated with Elizabeth Sauer (as co-editor) and about 80 contributors to produce Reading Early Modern Women (Routledge, 2005).

English 520, Representations of London, Fall 2005; MA student, English, University of Victoria. Johanne is currently a PhD candidate in the department of English.

At the time of her contribution to MoEML, Serina Patterson was an MA student in English at the University of Victoria. She is now a PhD student at the University of British Columbia with research interests in late medieval literature, game studies, and digital humanities. She is also the recipient of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada CGS Joseph-Bombardier Scholarship and a four-year fellowship at UBC for her work in Middle English and Middle French game poems. She has published articles in New Knowledge Environments and LIBER Quarterly—The Journal of European Research Libraries on implementing an online library system for digital-age youth. She also has a forthcoming article in Studies in Philology and a chapter on casual games and medievalism in a contributed volume published by Routledge. She is currently editing a forthcoming contributed volume titled Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature for the Palgrave series, The New Middle Ages. In addition to her academic work, Serina is a web developer for the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and owner of her own web design studio, Sprightly Innovations.

Graduate research assistant, 2012-13. Nathan Phillips is an MA student at the University of Victoria specializing in medieval and early modern studies. His research focuses on 16th- and 17th-century poetry and drama, as well as the editorial questions one can ask of both in the twisted mire of 400 years of editorial practice. In addition to questions of editorial theory, he is interested in the religious climate during which the plays and poems of the period came into being.

Daniel Powell, MA, English, University of Victoria; graduate research assistant on MoEML in 2010. His research focuses on linguistic anxiety in the mid-sixteenth-century play Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall. He is preparing an online critical edition of the play for digital publication. He returned to the U of Victoria in September 2011 to undertake doctoral studies and works with the ETCL on the Devonshire Manuscript.

Eoin Price is a doctoral student at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. His PhD, on political privacy in English Renaissance commercial drama, is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). He researches in the fields of intellectual and theatre history in the English Renaissance and has taught Shakespeare and early modern literature courses at the University of Birmingham. He regularly reviews modern productions of Renaissance plays and books on theatre history for scholarly journals.

Dr. Kevin A. Quarmby is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Freeman of the City of London, and a Liveryman in the Worshipful Company of Poulters. Prior to his academic career, he was a professional actor who appeared in numerous London West End productions, as well as at the Royal National Theatre and Old Vic. Quarmby teaches early modern literature and drama in the virtual and London-based programs of many institutions, including Shakespeare’s Globe. His publications have appeared in Shakespeare, Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama, Cahiers Elisabethain, Shakespeare Survey, and other scholarly venues. His first monograph, The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, is forthcoming from Ashgate (2012). An established journalist and theatre reviewer, Quarmby writes for the online magazines CurtainUp in the USA and British Theatre Guide in the UK. His reviews for Rogues and Vagabonds are now part of the British Library’s permanent Digital Theatre Archive.

Encoder, 2010. At the time of his work with MoEML, Liam was a fourth-year honours English student at the University of Victoria. He now works at MetaLab.

English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA honours student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor. Mr. Scott is now an elementary school teacher.

Jeremy Smith is assistant librarian, graphics and digital collections team, London Metropolitan Archives. Consultant

Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS) 2009–10, Department of English, University of Victoria. Ms. St. Clair was a third-year English Honours student at the time she held the scholarship.

English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, theatre, University of Victoria. Director of ceremonies and events, University of Victoria.

BA Honours 2006, MA 2008, Victoria; student assistant 2004-2008. Funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant.

Graduate research assistant. Zaqir Virani is an MA candidate at the University of Victoria. He received his BA from Simon Fraser University in 2012, and has worked as a musician, producer, and author of short fiction. His research focuses on the linkage of sound and textual analysis software and the work of Samuel Beckett.

English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA honours student, English language and literature, University of Windsor. Ms. Wiley completed an MA in library science at the University of Western Ontario.

English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English, University of Victoria.

English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English, University of Victoria.